OCR Text |
Show news nummary" SULTAN ON THE RUN The plague nt Mazallan, Mexico, la bating. Conference between the Japanese political partle have commenced. Morocco baa accepted the Invitation fair. lor an exhibit at the St. The will of Mrs. U. S. Grant divide lier property equally among her four children. lladda Mulluh, "who canned bo many outbreaks on the northweat frontier of India, died Doc. 22. One hundred miners were caught in a mlno flro in a Russian colliery and but twenty escaped. The finances of Guam are In a serious condition, as reported by the governor of the Island. Thirty persons were killed In the wreck on the Colorado & Southern bear Trinidad, Colo. Nine people were Injured In a trolley car accident at Pittsburg, Ia., caused by the car running away. s Tbe strike of Illinois Central off been aad tbe declared has ( i i ' l freight-handler- men have gone back to work. Notification of the conclusion of an arbitration treaty between Spain and Uruguay is gazetted In Madrid. Fire In tbe factory of the Standard Itock Candy company in Brooklyn did damage to the amount of $ 100,000, While coasting In St Ixmto two girls, aged 15 and 17, were plunged Into the Mississippi river and drowned. collision on tbe Grand In a head-oTrunk railway at Wanstcad, Ontario, five persons were killed and sixteen f n Injured. The Greek steamer Parthenon, having on board a crew of twenty-twmen and six .passengers, Is reported to have been lost. A severe earthquake was experienced at Syracuse, Sicily, Sunday evening. It was preceded by subterranean rumblings. The Association of Hoot and Shoe Manufacturers of France has decided to Immediately advance the scale of prices for footwear. Tbe secretary of state Is preparing a suitable response to .a special message to the president from the dowager empress of China. At Sprlngville, Ala., Professor Jacob Forney of tbe state university was accidentally killed while shooting sparrows with a parlor rifle. John D. Rockefeller Is said to be one of the chief stockholders of the billion dollar gas company that has secured the contract to light Paris. The warships of the allied powers are using searchlights to watch the coasts of Venezuela. Forty vessels are sow detained at La Guayra. Robbers dynamited the home of Robo i i i I ; , i i ; BAtLORS Afloat REBELS CHASE HIS TROOPS THE GATES OF FEZ. Vo Thru Omjt In Hull float Bala Aliuuut (travail Whan Kmouad. TO Almost crazed from their sufferings, frost-bitteand helpless, ten men In a boat were picked up by the schooner Manhasset forty-firmiles off Highland light, says a Boston dispatch. Then for the first time It a as learned that the schooners Frank A. Palmer and Louise B. Crary Tiad been In collision, and that they had been sunk off Thatcher's Island on Wednesday evening. The survivors were landed In Boston Monday. Of the twenty-onmen who made up the two crews, sit were carried down when the vessels sank, four died during the terrible three days drift In Massachusetts bay, and another became Insane and Jumped overboard. Most of the small boats were smashed and Borne of the men were killed by the collision, but others of both crews launched tho long boat of the Palmer, Into which clambered tbe captains of both vessels and thirteen others. There was not a mo ment for storing food and water In the boat and the Towers had propelled It only a short distance from the schooners when tbe Palmer went down. Throe minutes later the Crary disappeared. Without food and water, drenched to the skin, spray freezing to their garments because of tbe bitter cold, the fifteen survivors underwent sufferings Indescribable. Four men of the Crary on Friday lay down In the bow of the boat and died. Eleven remained up till Saturday night and Franz Banta went Insane ueder the delusion that his mother beckoned to him and he walked Into the sea. The others were powerless to restrain him. Shortly after this, the two captains decided that the bodies of the four dead men should be consigned to the deep, and, bending over them, Captain Potter of the Urary repeated as much of the burial service as hec ould remember. Then the strongest of the survivors put the hod Ids overboard, In the three days and a half that the men were afloat, their boat drifted steadily off shore, until at 8 o'clock miles Btmdny morning it was forty-fivoff Highland light. There the lookout on the fishing schooner Manhasset caught a glimpse of the boat, and within half an hour the ten men were In the cabin of tbe schooner. n The Sultan of Morocco Said to Hav Barricaded Himself in Palac In Consequence of Threatened Attack of Rebels. Tbe sultan of Morocco Is said to have retired to the palace at Fez with all his available artillery and ammunition, and to have strongly barricaded himself, In consequence of a threatened attack on the part of the Rebels. The Spanish government Is prepare Ing for eventualities in Morocco, and troops at Malaga, Cadiz and Algcclras to bn held In readiness to promptly reinforce the garrisons at Ceuta and Mcllill, Morocco, should the situation require it. A Spanish cruiser has been ordered to Tangolr. According to dispatches received In Madrid from Tangolr, the rebels chased tho troops of the sultan to the gates of Fez. It is reported that the Europeans are preparing to leave Fez. Premier Sllvela says the Spanish minister at Tangier telegraphs that he has had an Interview with the minister of foreign affuirs of Morocco, who, while he takes a serious velw of tho situation, says It Is not hopeless. The defeat of tbe sultan's troops, the foreign minister adds, was due to a surprise. He claims there has been no serious battle. The premier added that be supposed other powers would end warships to Moroeeo. Those army officers who were absent on furlough have been ordered to return to their posts. A regiment of Infantry has left for Algiers, and another is being held In readiness to go. Forces of cavalry, artillery and engineers. as well as a detachment of the hospital corps, wero also ready to be ' ! moved. FLIES LIKE A BIRD. Aerial Torpedo Which Acts Like a Thing of Life. According to a Utica, N. Y., dispatch, Professor Carl Myers, a balloon maker df Frankfurt, has constructed an electrical aerial torpedo, which Iff to be exhibited at the Ixmlsiana Purchase exposition. The aerial torpedo files like a thing of life, is driven by two aluminum screw blades, making 2,000 revolutions, and rotated by an electric motor which obatlns its power from an ordinary Incandescent lighting current of 110 volts. The movements are directed by two aeroplanes acting as rudders, moving the vessel up, down, right or left. In circles, spirals or rylolds, as a bird flies. All these evolutions are under control of a distant operator, who moves an Index over contact points on a dial switchboard. to which the vessel 'Instantly responds. RACE WAR IN ALABAMA. 8hoot!ng Results In Death of Two Negroes and Injury of Two White Men. Mr. ert Floyd of Mannlngton, W. Va. A shooting affray between whites Mrs. was killed and Floyd Instantly Floyd and a servant girl seriously In- and negroes near the Newberry phosphates mines resulted In tbe death of , jured. two negroes and the wounding of two Secretary Root has decided that It men. There has been bad feelwhite was Impracticable for General ChafTeo, General Smith and others to go to the ing between the whites and the employed at the mines for some Philippines to testify at the Glenn time. Four white men drove to Newcourtmartlol. on business, fully armed. When berry Judge Samuel J. Clarke, who led as they started for home a gang of neoverland expedition to Colorado In groes armed with Winchesters met 1819, and said to be the last survivor them In the road and opened fire. A of the first legislature of that state, battle ensued, with the result stated. e e e BOARDING is dead in Geneva, N. Y. James Feterson, a widower, aged C2, and hta d. tighter, aged 15, were found dead at their home In Radno, Wia., having been asphyxiated by coal gaa escaplug from a stove. Several alleged anarchists who were refused admission Into the United Slates have arrived at Genoa on the way to their homes. They have boon placed under police surveillance. It Is said that the mob which lynched Montgomery Godlcy at Pittsburg, Kan., for the murder of a policeman, hanged the wrong ntan, ns It was Godleys brother who committed the crime. f h t: t Cholera Depopulating Villages. Moros, on the Island of Mindanao, report that cholera Is depopulating the villages on the cast side of Lake Lanao. At Marlu there Is an average of fifty deaths nt day. The disease also prevails nt racalod. It has appeared on all sides of Lake Lanao, but tbe Visnynn residents of the Island do not yet seem to have been at- tacked. STARTED BY SPIRITS. Curious Story Going the Rounds Regarding the Czar of Russia. A curious story regarding the czar, who, as Is well known, has of late years taken great Interest In spiritualism, comes from frt. Petersburg After spending Christmas pleasantly through private sources. This story U with her family, Mrs. Ella Sweetland to the effect that The Hague conferof St Louis killed herself by shooting. ence was the direct result of a spiritualistic seance, nt whieli, having reShe had expressed a fear of paralysis, ceived a call, NVholas was and It is believed brooding ovor this told that It was Finperor his duty to bring about peace In the world. prompted the dm!. The funeral of Aaron Burton, the colored bodyguard of Colonel John F. Mushy, the well known confederate cavalry leader, has been held ot the home of his daughter In Brooklyn. Burton was 90 years old. long-distanc- e i 1 Tt-M- ii of Ilia RuUdlng Slav Kiftpc, Miruptilmift Unknown parties attempted to dynamite a Slavish boarding house at Springfield, Pa., Monday evening. The building was partially wrecked, but the fourteen occupants escaped nnhurL The men are employed at the American glue works, and It Is alleged that the motive that Inspired the throwing of the dynamite was revenge, a number of the foreigners having taken places of other workmen at lower wages. On October 20 the big plant of the company was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $100,000, and on the following Friday a smaller plant which had been opened after the destruction of the large factory, was burned. The fires are believed to have been of Incendiary origin, and the same perpetrators are suspected of being responsible for the explosion. wild run of an engine. Machinery HccmiiM ( nmanagcahla and Two Wrecks Result A helper engine on the Monon road got beyond control Monday, made two wild runs between Connersvllle and Liberty, Ind., wrecked two freight trains, demolished four engines, killed two men and Injured two others. Engineer Callahan of tho helper ran to College Grove, helping a freight. lie was to take the siding east of Liberty. When be reached the switch and attempted to reverse, part of the machinery would not respond, and the engine got beyond his control. Near Liberty it collided with a freight. In some way the helper reversed and started back, running through Liberty at the rate of seventy miles ntt hour. It dashed Into another freight, which was being hauled by two engines. Wyoming Sntoon lUlili.,1 by llnndlt. special from Red Lodge. Mort., J. D. Prims saloon in Cody, says: Wyo., was looted by bandits at about 2:30 oclock. The proprietor was obliged to walk behind the bar nt tho point of a gun and remain a passive spectator of the scene, but bo was made $Mi) poorer. Details that reached Red Lodge are rather meauer. Tho first news came In a message to Sheriff Potter. He was given a fnlrlv good description of the men who did tho Job, and was asked to keep a sharp lookout for them. A HAS MANY SOLDIERS. Boxer Chieftain Commanding 10,000 Warriors Looking for Trouble. to messages received In from the British consul nt Hankow. whom- - judgment Is exceptionally Vlem Mr. Marconi lectured at" Dundee he gave full credit to the Scotch trustworthy, the movement of Tung Fuh Slung Is supposed to have 10.0m) Inventor, Janies Bowman Lindsay, for warriors finder his command In Kansu being the first man who thoroughly He can easily dominate the province. believed In the possibility and utility f Kansu and Shensi, as provinces of wireless telegraphy, he local imperial forces are very Infifty years ego. ferior. Later advices from Askahad. RusBoers Coming to Unitrd St.it-- s. In the couni sian Turkestan, say that A Monterey special says: General f try around Andipan eleven villages are Samuel tho lloor commander Pierson, In ruins as a result of tho recent who became fatuous during tho war earthquake, and that fully 6,000 houi. s between the Boers and the English by have been destroyed la those scattered appearing at New Orleuos and strenusettlements. ously opposing the sale of mules to The British West Indian papers English agents. Is In Monterey ns tho unanimously suppoit the attltudo of agent of thousands of hfs countrymen Great P.rltaln regarding Venezuela. It who propose t rstahlMi colonics Is claimed lately the neighboring re- either in southwestern Texas or publics have been showing scant re- northern Mexico, a committee of gard for the lives and properly of Boers Is expmtcd to arrive nt New British residents. Orleans Jan, IN. HOUSE DYNAMITED VoortMn Occupant ns-gro- e i TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE rinKn 111 W Advices from Mazatlan, on the western coast of Mexico, where a dlseaso supposed to be tbe bubonic plague lias broken out, show that there were three deaths on Saturday, and nine on Suntbe malady. A pest houso day f i has been and quarantine regulations are being rigidly enforced. Weather conditions along the west const htc favorable to the spreading of the plague. Tbp governor of the state of Sinaloa la woiklng to prevent tho plague spreading. o-- Wa Itcrinlnl t IHe, well dressed worunn 19 years old, giving her name ns Mrs. W. c. Hazel of Covington, Ky was taken to the city hospital In Indianapolis In an unconscious condition from morphine and wounds in her wrist, Inflicted with a pair of scissors, and she died at 9 oclock. She U Mrs. Clarence Hael, who figured lu the papers throughout the central states last week because of tho efforts to kill herself In I.ntonla hotel In Covington. Kv. Mrs. Hazel came to Indianapolis Friday. A NOilTIIMTST NOTES. Emperors Life Is Busy The battle for the Stratton million at Colorado Springs. ,n II. J. Burrlll, a ball playr was near wreck stantly killed In a railroad Kaiser Wilhelm as Indefatigable in Work as He Is Eager in Relaxation His Court la now on Expenditures Are Heavy, Kallspell, MonL RawWilliam Myers, a brakeman at while off cut band lins, Wyo., bad his cupling cars at Wainsutter. his P, c. Mendenhall, a miner, had the at work ut while crushed left hip ONeill mine, Gilpin county, Colo, William Webber died at the eounty rehospital in Cheyenne of injuries of east ceived near Archer station, (Special Correspondence.) N the neighborhood of lie was not a courtier, nor m . tho Neues Palais at possess In any marked degree thl li Potsdam the country lty to appreciate Teutonic people relate that the he returned toH.-- London not, bo It Emperor William Is to about William be met riding In the In the latters capacity as a rul woods, accompanied by as a naval constructor of the souw a single gentleman, at and most learned type. The emperor at play is an all hours from 5 a. m. to 8 at night. The presperson. All the, ent writer has seen his Imperial ma- knows that he has acquired somW unartistic ability jesty and the empress, absolutely most hta mothers sketches, though those who rem attended and walking like the a his allegorical drawing homely Berlin tradespeople, taking mornIn 9 the at the Yellow Peril may l,e constitutional brisk ing among the stunted fir trees which describe his pencil as somewhat fa Ish. He has written poetry and heM1 vary the suburbs of Berlin. The emperor at home lives a long In the writing of a play, and ' R Ideas for other plays. day, though there are Indications that middle age Is creeping on, and with . Out of doors the emperors chief age rather less strenuous bours. At taxation la with the gun. Re hu! Potsdam the old vigorous life of ten ways been an indefatigable hunter r and twelve years ago has continued wild things, from grouse to boarx i longest. His Imperial majesty riseB congenital malformation of the to with the lark, dons his riding clothes, arm leaves It useless for all pttrj)0SM - ofr Cheyenne. John Singer, a stonemason of Denresult ver, and his wife are dead as a was it thinking acid, oxalic of drinking epsom salts. The Helena, Mont., Herald, has Record, passed Into the control of the ediafternoon an as and will be Issued tion of that paper. Tbe Elks lodge of Rawlins had two Christmas trees and gave to every child In the city between the ages of 4 and 14 years a nice present. saloonJoseph Gugllelmo, a Portland death by an keeper, was stabbed to atman wai saloon Italian whom the of his from place to eject tempting business. Because his wife objected to bis mother living with them, Otto Erdmann, an engineer at the Portland City suicide by waterworks, committed himself. shooting E. E. Johnson, who recently had both feet frozen while walking from Montezuma to Breckenrldge, has been declared Insane and ordered committed to the asylum. boy who Fred Stldd, the shot Ed Cameron, the deputy sheriff, at Thermopolls, was raptured on the Red desert In Carbon county and placed In jail at Lander, Wyo. Francis Hayes, a taxidermist of New Castle, Colo., was arrested last week, charged with shipping a deer head out of season. The head was discovered at Colorado Springs. Hayes was released on bond of 5100. incj THE EXCHANGE. (Berlin.) then sits down to a preliminary breakShooting deer from a baggage car fast calculated to appal less imperial was the novel experience of a few of constitutions. The ride done, the emthe employes of the Northern Pacific peror gets himself to letters and state Taflroad near Missoula, Mont., a few papers and interviews. The big meal of the day, compared days ago, a large buck being shot and with our notions of what time late killed by the trainmen. dinner should be, romes at an uncomA brother of Alexander Gordan, the fortably early hour. That done, the young man who Is supposed to have time is spent in the family circle, or committed suicide at Archer station, more often at the theater; and It may east of Cheyenne, on November 5, be- be mentioned that the play in Gerdoes not Interfere with the Imlieves his brother was murdered, and many perial habit of getting early to bed. affair. the la investigating As befits so voracious a worker and The Pueblo Council refused to pass one who spares himself so little, bis a resolution discharging J. C. Hunter majesty may be said to enjoy his of Denver, consulting engineer for the food. He has increased in girth conof late years. He has not construction of Pueblos proposed siderably the seat on horseback that he had. let storm and sanitary sewer system. us say, in 1893, while the contour of Hunter has been draw ing $200 a month his chin has grown appreciably more for seven months. rounded. One useful quality which William II. Two miners, George Bridge and has to perfection Is the power of inFred Goldstine, were killed In tho OJo fant application. He can take up a mountains, Cal.; a day or so ago by a piece of work and become immersed delnyed blast. The men thought the in It at a moments notice. Certainly fuse was not burning, and after wait- the faculty is one which no emperor ing for an hour, approacheu the spot who has to travel about and show him-el- f should he without as tbe blast exploded. One tiny example of such concentra The discovery of natural gas thirtion came under my notice. The Emteen miles west of Douglas is regarded peror had come over for a night at the event most has as the that Important opera at Wiesbaden from Mainz, occurred in the industrial development where he had spent the day reviewing of central Wyoming. The gas was troops. He drove straight from the struck in an oil well and It shot gravel performance hack to the railway station to catch tin midnight train for and sand far above the derrick. Metz and more reviews. A few advenCharles Summeivrs, formerly of In- turous English visitors took up their dependence. Culo., Is suing for divorce Rtand at a level crossing a mile out of from his wife, Anna Sumnierers, now Wiesbaden, so as to get an unlnter- residing at that place, on the grounds of cruelty and de-- tion. He alleges his wife threw Mm out of the house and would net b t him nturn. save to repose on bis sword hilt at his side. He takes aim and shooti with his right arm alone. Yachting !i hit other love. He likes long voyagetial the silent nights at sea under to stars. His majesty has to have mag clothes, and it must be confessed to; he has a weakness for the most gor geous uniform that he has a right wear the gleaming white o( to Guards, topped by burnished helmet topped In Its turn by the poising figors of the imperial eagle. In that costume, remarked a lea observer of him on one occasion, "he feels himself to be Germany militant and ready to repel all comers. ILto out Indorsing so large a statements may be admitted that his majesty looks wonderfully well in those white trappings; while hussar roglmentaii, for instance, do not add to the to pressiveness of his appeaiance. It seems a contradiction to add tot fhe German court expenditure far ceeds the expenditure of either of the former emperors. Fredrick 1IL was an Invalid; but William L lived at a time no less splendid for the Germai empire than now. But the old William and the young William mean different things. The old emperor could never be got to see that Imperial duties included lavish entertainments given at tables groaning under barbaric gold plate When he left his study to go to eath.. modest (if copious) dinner, at the f mous old palace Unter den Linden, ht would turn down tho lamp on W desk. Intimates wondered at the hab.L to-da- ei The Great Northern main line track from Everett, Wash., east from the Cdscade tunnel, has been abandoned since Wednesday, owing to the ridge at Madison being curried away by a snow slide and the ti mcmlous snow slides between MadWi n and the tunnel. 1 Word has just reached Denver of Yandicst St San Luis. In the extreme southern Tart of Colorado on Christmas day. Ho dropped dead nt He- - feet f his son, although npp.in MN m the best of health. Professor V.mdiest was one of tho best known gmiogists in the world. Michael MiGinidi, rn aged placer miner, who has long bn n an imnnts of the county hospital ut Peer ledge, Mont., went er.iy one day la t week, escaped, secured n rtile and for a while held the town in ti nor. Finally he started for the bills, and it is feared he will do himself or some one else an Injury. While his vestment! weto being .licked by Haines, Father Culler of Spokane calmly onttnued sen ices in St. Bonifaces Catholic ehunh at Uniontown on Christmas day. He desisted only when the heat became unbearable, nnd his rohiM bud 1mm n set afire In several places. But In the meantime his courageous example had calmed a panic among the Mo people, and the fire was extinguished without anyone suffering except the priest, who has a number of small burns on his the death of Profes.-o- r P. H. DAS REICHSTAGSGEBAUDE. ami now, nnd then would that such economy was full view of the impel mi nape, brilliantly light,., ai undrawn. Only u mi,, , hadtn, with the songs of pritna donna not out of h there sat the emperor (, writing as diligently ns liustrlons and most infill I Isis. ills Imperial majesty w, purpose. Naval const course, is his particular lm time of the Inst uuIvoin eonferenqo held at Berlin Principal officials of i.iytI staff, since dead, had an the emperor. The Englishman was Mu tua ship models In the lm' . remind not nC I 4 nnd nmdo tho room redolent consumed oil. But the old emperor stuck to hi tie economies. They had done . court In his dear mothers day beautiful queen Louise who had1"' I'ered so much at tho hands of eon. Frugality had been needed he saw no reason for changeHis grandson, on the contrary. P era to keep his lamp burning. - Memoirs of Gen. Grant. The widow of Gen. Grant I te have been occupied during th , P4 inomo fivo years In writing ber "It it'll are now nearly ready fef P it at Ion. It Is rumored, howovefi they win not be published th authors death iutl1 |